The World’s Best Spicy Food: Authentic recipes from around the world (Lonely Planet)

Discover the wide world of spice. One word, a million different thrills. Lonely Planet Food, the world’s leading travel publisher’s new food imprint, delivers the world’s most tastebud-tingling flavours direct to your kitchen.

Travel can transform your cooking, exposing you to new mouth-zinging ingredients that you may not have even heard of before. But, when there is so much world to explore in terms of food, The World’s Best Spicy Food comes in with a hand-selected collection of the world’s most sensorially thrilling culinary experiences to try at home.

Explore the cultures behind the planet’s spiciest dishes, from Thai som tom, Indian dahl, and Korean kimchi, to Peruvian ceviche, Caribbean curries, and Nashville hot chicken. And it doesn’t stop with chilies-there are pungent, nose-clearing recipes with wasabi, mustard, horseradish, cinnamon, paprika, mace, piccalilli, and black, white, pink, and Sichuan pepper. These are dishes to make your tongue punch the air with elation, loaded with flavours that kick-start the palate and infuse every sense with joy.

Each of the 100 recipes includes easy-to-use instructions and mouth-watering photography, plus an ‘origins’ section detailing how the dish has evolved. There are also tasting notes that explain how best to sample each dish – whether that’s in a hawker market in Singapore or at a Louisiana picnic spread – to truly give you a flavour of the place.

This book is a celebration of spice in every form: ingredients that turn the bland to brilliant, the dreary into divine. And, as with all food, it’s the finest way to experience any foreign culture. This is real food, pulsing with vibrancy and delight, bringing a truly happy tear to one’s eye.

Recipes include:

Black-Pepper Crab – Singapore

Bunny Chow – South Africa

Camarones a la Diabla – Mexico

Caribbean Curry Goat – Caribbean

Ceviche – Peru

Chorizo – Spain

Crab with Kampot Pepper – Cambodia

Creole Cau Cau – Coastal Peru

Doro Wat – Ethiopia

Fi? Paprikas – Croatia

Fish Head Curry – Singapore & Malaysia

Five-Alarm Texas Chili – USA

Gekikara R?men – Japan

Gong Bao Chicken – China

Goulash – Hungary

Groundnut Soup – Ghana

Jamaican Jerk – Caribbean

Jambalaya – USA

Jollof Rice – West Africa

Kashgar Lamb Kebabs – China

Klobasa – Central Europe

Kothu Roti – Sri Lanka

Ostras Picantes – Guinea-Bissau

Palm Butter – Liberia

Papas a la HuancaÃ­na – Peru

Pasta all’arrabbiata – Italy

Pepperpot – Guyana & Caribbean

Pho – Vietnam

Pica Pau – Portugal

Pickled Herring in Mustard Sauce – Norway

Pig Trotter Curry – India & Nepal

Pimientos de PadrÃ³n – Spain

Piri-piri chicken – Mozambique

Samosas – India

Shakshouka – Tunisia

Souse – Caribbean

Thai Green Curry – Thailand

Vindaloo – India

Harissa – Tunisia

Lime Pickle – India, Pakistan & Bangladesh

Pepper Jelly – USA

Piccalilli – England

Salsa Xnipec – Mexico

Plus 57 more exhilarating recipes!!

About Lonely Planet Food: Food and drink is a huge part of the travel experience, and Lonely Planet has been scouring the globe for over 40 years to find the best places to sample authentic dishes and beverages when on the road. From street food to Michelin-starred restaurants, Lonely Planet’s experts have tried it all. Now, through Lonely Planet Food, we’re sharing our knowledge and passion for genuine local cuisine with food-lovers everywhere, bringing a taste of the world into your kitchen.